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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Semantics
WRAT
Norm-referenced tests
2. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Modern English
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
V-e
Linguistic Method
3. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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4. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Vr
Towre
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
5. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Syntax
Oral Language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
6. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Anna Gillingham
RTI
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Closed Syllable
7. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Trigraph
Standard score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
8. r-controlled syllable
Modification
Profile
CTOPP
Vr
9. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Grapheme
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Joe Torgesen
10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Digraph
Tactile
Texas Education Code 38.003
11. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Receptive language
Breve
IEP
Derived Score
12. Final stable syllable
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13. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Multisensory
MSLE
VC
Sound Symbol Association
14. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Attention
Phonemic/ decodable words
MSL
Morpheme
15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Rate
Cedilla
[-'le
16. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Macron
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Visual Learners
Impulsivity
17. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Modification
Frank Smith
CTOPP
Attention
18. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Criterion-Referenced Test
Middle English
Achievement test
Accommodation
19. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
V >
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Auditory Learners
20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Morphology
Synthetic Instruction
Cognition
21. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Modern English
Syntax
Greek layer of language
Great Vowel Shift
22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Academic Achievement Tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Diphthong
Anglo Saxon
23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Direct Instruction
Texas Education Code 38.003
Reliability
24. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Modern English
Anna Gillingham
Mathew Effect
25. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Breve
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 4
26. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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27. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Syntax
Diagnostic Teaching
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
28. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Modification
Attention
WRAT
29. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
MSL
Six basic types of syllables
Oral Language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
30. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Keith Stanovich
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Ability
31. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Ability
Attention
ESL
Receptive language
32. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
V >
VAKT
Affix
Diagnostic tests
33. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Reliability
Accuracy
IMSLEC
Open Syllable
34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Anglo Saxon
Samuel T. Orton
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Sound Symbol Association
35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Rate
Visual Processing
CTOPP
Middle English
36. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Letter naming Chart
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Syllable
37. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Mastery level
Base Word
Suffix
38. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Semantics
Vr
Grade equivalents
39. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Phonemic Awareness
Social language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Keith Stanovich
40. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Top-down Reading Approach
Composite Score
Modern English
41. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Ability
Visual Processing
Composite Score
Impulsivity
42. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Reading Comprehension Support
Battery
Vr
Syllable
43. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Norm-referenced tests
Standard Scores
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
44. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Frank Smith
Pre-English
Middle English
Macron
45. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Texas Education Code 28.06
Morpheme
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Receptive language
46. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Synthetic Instruction
Modern English
Chall's Stage 3
47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Syllable Instruction
Tactile
Academic Achievement Tests
ADHD
48. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Universal Screening
Stanine Scores
Anglo Saxon
Tilde
49. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Frank Smith
Consonant
Anglo Saxon
Old English
50. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Matthew Effect
Fluency
Vowel Digraph